CyberSecurity Vocab 1.1

The trail that you leave behind when you engage in online experiences.

• Analog Footprint

• Virtual Machine

• Digital Footprint

• Crack

To guess or discover information, especially a password.

• Crack

• Python

• Virtual Machine

• Script

A collection of Python code or commands that perform some function.

• Monty Python Script

• Crack

• Virtual Machine

• Python Script

An attempt to discover information, especially passwords, through trial and error.

• Brute Force Atack

• Encrypted

• Dictionary Attack

• Encyclopedia Attack

A process that converts human-readable text or data into a coded from.

• Metamorphisis

• Algorithm

• Encrypted

• Crack

A set of steps to accomplish a task.

• Algorithm

• Step-by-step process

• Abstraction

• Dictionary Attack

The part of the filename that comes after the period, indicating the file type.

• Directory

• Suffix

• File Extension

• Python Script

Irrelevant or inappropriate messaging sent through email to a large number of recipients

• Ham

• Phishing

• Email source

• Spam

The last segment of a web address

• Top-level Domain

• Malicious Website

• Email source

• Spam

Software that is intended to do harm or damage.

• Crack

• Malware

• Phisher

• Social Engineering